{"id":9363,"date":"2017-10-27T19:05:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T19:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=9363"},"modified":"2017-10-28T15:44:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T15:44:14","slug":"jackie-allen-mesmerises-with-personal-vision-and-poetic-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=9363","title":{"rendered":"Jackie Allen mesmerises with personal vision and poetic music"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jackie Allen \u2013 Rose Fingered Dawn: The Songs of Hans Sturm\u00a0<\/em>(Avant Bass)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Milwaukee-born, Nebraska-based jazz singer Jackie Allen is on a sky-kissing career arc. Though still possessing far more talent than renown, her new album tops her previous, which I\u2019d considered her best.\u00a0 Dawn<\/em> is more personal and artful, yet also as accessible as anything she\u2019s done. That\u2019s because of the nifty yin-yang between poetical art song-like creations often with enchanting world music settings, and more down-home groove songs, all created by her spouse, bassist-composer, Hans Sturm. The title song brilliantly evokes the dangers of romance: \u201cYou\u2019re the light on the cliff over walls of mist\/you\u2019re the rocks below I can\u2019t resist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Allen\u2019s alluring voice, in its natural vibrato, glimmers like gulps from the heart, yet she transmits lyrics and sentiments with effortless aplomb and exquisite timing.<\/p>\n

On \u201cMoon on the Rising\u201d her voice, in dramatic effect, speeds up the image to evoke the rising moon in a manner of seconds. On \u201cSteal the Night,\u201d her limpid phrasing sounds as if a circling well of water drifting into a slow current just out of reach of the departing lover who may never return.<\/p>\n

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Courtesy Jackie Allen Facebook page<\/em><\/p>\n

Dane Richeson is rather wizardly in adding dimensions of percussive impetus as layered as they are propulsive, revealing his long study in African percussion and world musics. His uncanny chants open the album, like a shaman preparing his followers for a sacred ritual. The album follows with due spiritual fervor and complexity. Bassist-composer Strum remains central to the experience at all times, like a great stone well around which followers circle in dance or huddle, dipping into its riches like hungry fishermen.<\/p>\n

Guitarist John Moulder also adds potent expression laced with shard-like textures, another veil of mystery that Allen dances behind.<\/p>\n

Try this singer out and you\u2019ll fall hard. Return to her and you\u2019ll know why you always do.<\/p>\n

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The black and white photos were taken by Leiko Napoli at Jackie Allen’s spring concert at the Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts in Milwaukee.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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